Dude WOW I never knew this. I have been doing that for years and could never understand why I see the same MAC address on both IPs when looking at the router. What I have done now is to change the static IP for eth0 to dhcp and unplug the cable. Then all works 100%. Thanks so much. Now I need to figure out nic bonding of wifi links on all my other Pi's. Mmmmmmm

Hi, and thanks for this, but i have a problem, when my RPI boot up it does not connect to wifi, only broadcasting but on RPI AP is not internet connection, also on system icon is error "Connection to dhcpcd lost" what with this? thanks.

@Msprg: I presume you are using Raspbian. Which release? Jessie or Stretch?

I don't think anthony19114 is going to be much help. That post was 18 months ago and he hasn't logged in in over a year.

I'm always willing to give new network stuff a go if I know which OS to use. Some major differences between Jessie and Stretch network-wise.

Edit: Even if this works, you will probably not be happy with the performance. It would work in the same fashion as a wifi repeater/range extender. Your transfer bandwidth will drop way off. I use two wifi devices, one onboard as the AP, and another usb wifi device as the station (client). Works well with much less performance degradation.

With your last email, I had to learn, that my new raspberrypi3 OS is "stretch" ..shame on me..
So,
I am working with a raspberrypi3 with the internal wlan and the USB wlan edimax stick.
The "receiver" of all my computers,laptops from the family is a fritzbox-router which works together with
the "home" cable-set. So, my fritzbox-router has an ip-number. Is this the local IP-number you mentioned?
How can I verify my local IP?
Sorry for my terrible english!
I am a bit confused that I do not have any /etc/network/interfaces file!??
The interface mechanism with the stretch-OS seems to be a bit different?!.

many thx again.
...and yes, I would like to take the"better" Edimax stick for AP (Better performance long distance) and
my onboard wlan for the short distance to my "home"-router fritzbox, just 4 metres beside the desk.
This should be my connection to the i-net, which works at the moment very good.
(I am writing this email from my raspberrypi3 connected over putty (ssd) to my laptop)

By the way, I read you are from Florida, hopefully everything goes well after this terrible hurrican!!

Hmmm.... ...with ifconfig,
I can see my wlan0 static IP, wlan1 no IP and at lo(localhost?!) these standard 127.xxxxx !
So I don't understand this line
*******iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.2.0/24 ! -d 192.168.2.0/24 -j MASQUERADE****
Is the IP 192.168.2.0 the localhost adress, which means I have to choose 127.xxxxx?